{"id":1646,"date":"2011-11-22T11:44:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2011-11-22T11:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:44:32","slug":"pelosi-whines-about-catholics-having-%e2%80%9cthis-conscience-thing%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/pelosi-whines-about-catholics-having-%e2%80%9cthis-conscience-thing%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Whines About Catholics Having \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This Conscience Thing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2011\/11\/21\/pelosi-whines-about-catholics-having-this-conscience-thing\/\">From HotAir<\/a> by Tina Korbe<\/p>\n<p>Maybe she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just jealous they have something she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifenews.com\/2011\/11\/21\/pelosi-bashes-catholics-they-have-this-conscience-thing\/\">LifeNews.com<\/a>, Nancy Pelosi is upset that the U.S. Catholic bishops wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t approve if the Obama administration did, in fact, decide to force insurance companies to cover birth control, contraception and drugs that could cause abortions. The bishops say that, under such a decision, some religious groups might have to provide the insurance against their moral and religious views.<\/p>\n<p>Given the Catholic Church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ban on contraception, the bishops\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 position shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t come as a surprise to Ms. Pelosi \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but she still manages to be baffled by their concern for conscience protections for health insurers who might not want to have to cover birth control just to be able to provide other types of health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, she was skeptical earlier this year that Republicans would fight for conscience protections for health care providers out of any noble motive. Republicans must want women to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153die on the floor,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, just because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to <em>compel<\/em>health care providers to assist with abortions.<\/p>\n<p>She still thinks that \u00e2\u20ac\u201d only more so, if that could possibly be.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153[Those who disagree] may not like the language,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 she told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/princess-nancy-pelosivows-to-do-for-child-care-what-we-did-for-health-care\/2011\/11\/15\/gIQACzY1VN_story_1.html\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153but the truth is what I said. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it .\u00e2\u20ac\u2030.\u00e2\u20ac\u2030. but they have this conscience thing [that puts women at risk.]\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Shame on us! How dare we have a conscience!<\/p>\n<p>Another little anecdote Pelosi told WaPo suggests the former speaker is also put out whenever a Catholic gives the pope\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s positions on life more credence than they do hers. Nancy Pelosi knows the personal experience of motherhood as the pope never could \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean she can reject his authority and credibly call herself Catholic. It means more to be Catholic than to just attend a Catholic Church. The authority of the magisterium is arguably the linchpin on which all other Catholic apologetics hang \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and Pelosi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s repeated disregard for it makes me cringe when I read a quote from her to the effect that she loves and honors her faith. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not saying she <em>has <\/em>to be Catholic \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just saying she should be honest with herself (and us!) about whether she is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From HotAir by Tina Korbe Maybe she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just jealous they have something she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 According to LifeNews.com, Nancy Pelosi is upset that the U.S. Catholic bishops wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t approve if the Obama administration did, in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[344],"tags":[2666,2667,554,2665],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}